Help marginal employees take positive steps to improve their performance and behavior! Managing difficult employees is one of the most challenging aspects of a school leader's job. Written by experienced administrators, this resource provides specific strategies to identify, work with, and evaluate employees who have marginal, deficient, or negative behaviors. This book includes: Sample dialogues for conducting difficult conversations Templates for putting concerns into writing and developing improvement plans Information about legal issues and ways to protect yourself Methods for working with…mehr
Help marginal employees take positive steps to improve their performance and behavior! Managing difficult employees is one of the most challenging aspects of a school leader's job. Written by experienced administrators, this resource provides specific strategies to identify, work with, and evaluate employees who have marginal, deficient, or negative behaviors. This book includes: Sample dialogues for conducting difficult conversations Templates for putting concerns into writing and developing improvement plans Information about legal issues and ways to protect yourself Methods for working with teachers, secretaries and assistants, paraprofessionals, and custodial staff Steps to take when termination becomes necessaryHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
John Eller has had a variety of experiences in working with adults over the years he has been in education. His experiences include work educational leaders at Virginia Tech University, developing teacher leaders in a Maters program, serving as the Executive Director of Minnesota ASCD, work as a principal's training center director, a position as an assistant superintendent for curriculum, learning, and staff development, and several principal positions in a variety of settings. In addition to the work he does in training and supporting facilitators, John also does work in the areas of dealing with difficult people, building professional learning communities, employee evaluation, conferencing skills, coaching skills, strategic planning strategies, school improvement planning and implementation, differentiated instruction, leadership for differentiation, employee recruitment, selection, and induction, supervisory skills, and effective teaching strategies. He has his PhD. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Loyola University-Chicago and his MS in Educational Leadership from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. John has authored books on substitute teaching, wrote The Training Video Series for the Professional School Bus Driver, The principals' Guide to Custodial Supervision contributes articles for the publication Superintendents Only. He wrote Effective Group Facilitation in Education: How to Energize Meetings and Manage Difficult Groups, and co-authored So Now You're the Superintendent, the best selling, Energizing Staff Meetings and Creative Strategies to Improve School Culture all through Corwin Press.
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Preface About the Authors 1. The Nature of Difficult/Marginal Employees: Why Don¿t These People Listen to Reason and Improve? Frames of Reference Characteristics of Difficult Employees The Response to Change Understanding the Source of the Difficulty Summary 2. What Skills and Tools Do I Need in Order to Take On This Situation? Background of Employee Discipline A Competencies-Based Approach to Thinking About Employee Problems The Definition of Success When Working With Difficult or Deficient Employees Your Readiness in Dealing With a Difficult Situation or Person The Use of Job Descriptions in Your Work With Difficult School Employees Summary 3. Strategies for Confronting Marginal and Deficient Behaviors Framing Authority Voice Summary 4. Protecting Yourself While Dealing With Difficult Employees Presuppositions Reflecting Displacing Negative Energy Additional Self-Protection Strategies Summary 5. Strategies for Working With Difficult/Marginal Teachers The Law and Teacher Employment Your Master Contract or Master Agreement Understanding Your Evaluation Criteria The Ability to Describe Deficient or Substandard Work Base and Surface Competancies Deciding Whether to Move Forward to Terminate Employment or Develop a Growth Plan Growth Plans Delivering a Deficiency Notice or Termination Message to a Teacher The Entire Cycle Summary 6. Strategies for Working with Difficult/Marginal Secretaries and Office Handling Your Administrative Assistants A Basic Set of Administrative Assistant/Office Employee Tasks Base and Surface Competancies Prioritizing Work Tasks Planning Sessions to Establish Priorities for the Work Completion Growth Plans Delivering a Deficiency Notice or Termination Message to an Administrative Assistant Summary 7. Strategies for Working with Difficult/Marginal Paraprofessionals and Teaching Assistants The Nature of Teaching Assistants and Paraprofessionals Base and Surface Competancies Growth Plans Delivering a Performance Concern or Termination Message to a Paraprofessional or Teaching Assistant An Example of a Meeting and Letter of Reprimand for a Paraprofessional Summary 8. Strategies for Working with Difficult/Marginal Custodians Possible Difficult Custodial Behaviors Effective Delegation of Tasks and Assignments Base and Surface Competancies Growth Plans Delivering a Performance or Skill Deficit Concern to a Custodial Employee Summary References Index
Preface About the Authors 1. The Nature of Difficult/Marginal Employees: Why Don¿t These People Listen to Reason and Improve? Frames of Reference Characteristics of Difficult Employees The Response to Change Understanding the Source of the Difficulty Summary 2. What Skills and Tools Do I Need in Order to Take On This Situation? Background of Employee Discipline A Competencies-Based Approach to Thinking About Employee Problems The Definition of Success When Working With Difficult or Deficient Employees Your Readiness in Dealing With a Difficult Situation or Person The Use of Job Descriptions in Your Work With Difficult School Employees Summary 3. Strategies for Confronting Marginal and Deficient Behaviors Framing Authority Voice Summary 4. Protecting Yourself While Dealing With Difficult Employees Presuppositions Reflecting Displacing Negative Energy Additional Self-Protection Strategies Summary 5. Strategies for Working With Difficult/Marginal Teachers The Law and Teacher Employment Your Master Contract or Master Agreement Understanding Your Evaluation Criteria The Ability to Describe Deficient or Substandard Work Base and Surface Competancies Deciding Whether to Move Forward to Terminate Employment or Develop a Growth Plan Growth Plans Delivering a Deficiency Notice or Termination Message to a Teacher The Entire Cycle Summary 6. Strategies for Working with Difficult/Marginal Secretaries and Office Handling Your Administrative Assistants A Basic Set of Administrative Assistant/Office Employee Tasks Base and Surface Competancies Prioritizing Work Tasks Planning Sessions to Establish Priorities for the Work Completion Growth Plans Delivering a Deficiency Notice or Termination Message to an Administrative Assistant Summary 7. Strategies for Working with Difficult/Marginal Paraprofessionals and Teaching Assistants The Nature of Teaching Assistants and Paraprofessionals Base and Surface Competancies Growth Plans Delivering a Performance Concern or Termination Message to a Paraprofessional or Teaching Assistant An Example of a Meeting and Letter of Reprimand for a Paraprofessional Summary 8. Strategies for Working with Difficult/Marginal Custodians Possible Difficult Custodial Behaviors Effective Delegation of Tasks and Assignments Base and Surface Competancies Growth Plans Delivering a Performance or Skill Deficit Concern to a Custodial Employee Summary References Index
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